Conference Session

Sustainability and Hands-on Engineering Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paula Ann Monaco, Texas Tech University ; Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

into groups of 2-3 people depending onclass size. In addition to the primary instructor, two graduate students helped conduct hands-onactivities.The environmental engineering course curriculum has evolved over the past 5 years. A syllabus(Table 2) for the environmental engineering mini-course was developed for students tounderstand the expectations of the course. Learning objectives were set for each topic coveredthroughout the course paired with expected outcomes. Learning objectives and expectedoutcomes were applied to all age groups. The difficulty of design calculations and number ofdiscussion questions increased for high school aged campers. The older students were askedthought provoking discussion questions following activities for